20th ANNIVERSARY 1996-2016

A sinister story of superstition, sacrifice and dirty laundry Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling Adapted by Nobby Dimon Directed by Vivienne Garnett Programme £2

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Angels of the North Country Richmond Town Council North Country 20th Anniversary Stats Welcome to our 20th anniversary season

Age 20 (First tour May/June 1996) On behalf of the Board I am delighted to Nobby is to be congratulated for holding Touring Productions 31 welcome you to our third production for on to his vision for excellence and ensuring Community Plays 3 our 20th anniversary year. It is an that rural communities have access to Performances 1139 achievement to be celebrating 20 years of North Country Theatre’s theatrical, Total Audience 100,000 + North Country Theatre. I joined the Board educational and Furthest South West Hendred, Oxfordshire back in 2003 and became Chair the site specific work Furthest North Poolewe, Wester Ross following year. It’s been good to have been and the Board are Most visited village hall outside North Yorks Carlops, nr Edinburgh (21) part of such an imaginative and well-loved pleased to have Bishops Castle/Edgton (22) company, that is supported by its audience been able to play a Most visited village hall inside North Yorks Kirklington (22) not just financially, but in many other ways small part in this Regular professional venues include Georgian Theatre Royal, too. Looking back over my numerous success story. Helmsley Arts Centre, Otley Courthouse, Chair’s reports for the AGM’s I have been The Wynd Theatre Melrose, reminded of just how much inventive, Faye Doorbar The Ropewalk, Barton on Humber quality work has been carried out by such a Actor who has appeared in the most plays Mark Cronfield (12) small team. It makes impressive reading.

Plus Patrons Educational Projects in schools & colleges 10 Dame Brenda Hale and Prof Julian Farrand National Trust, Fountains Abbey 250 days over 17 years (10,000 children) whose ongoing help, support and encouragement is much valued. Other Site Specific Projects & Street Theatre: Settle Carlisle Railway, Kiplin Hall, Brodsworth Hall x 2, Richmond Castle, The Board Of North Country Theatre Royal Show Stoneleigh, Middleham Castle, Dales Countryside Museum x 2, From those first informal conversations around Yorvik Viking Festival, Charter Celebrations, The Station Richmond, a kitchen table grew the company which was formally constituted on 31st October 1996. Knaresborough Castle. Designed, cut and animated Labyrinths at The current Board Members are: Faye Doorbar Abbey, Lindisfarne, Rievaulx, York Minster, Richmond Walking & Book Festival. [Chair], Gillian Howells [Company Secretary], Plus Amanda Cook, Wilma Burniston, Nobby Dimon, Many individual workshops, tutorials, talks and training days. Liz Floyd. We have one full time employee and have employed more than 50 different actors and Twelfth Night, summer 2016 Others who have been on the Board or have actor/teachers, 7 different designer/makers, 4 different musicians, 4 graphic designers. been special advisors are Debbie Walker, Ken Blakeson, Clive World, Mike Potter, Bill Sellars, Donald Cline, Lorna Christie.

Andy Thursfield Path to Paradise is proud to have designed Join us at a site specific presentation at North Country Theatre’s Mount Grace Priory, Osmotherley near publicity material since 2000. between Saturday 22nd Andy Thursfield | Graphic Designer and Tuesday 25th October 11am - 4pm 01748 829507 See www.english-heritage.org.uk for directions Egil Skallagrimsson, spring 2016

2 3 Frere played Richard Hannay in that first tour computers plus some lighting and sound Sweet and Twenty and was here this summer to play Sir Andrew equipment. The ultimate success of that bid and A brief history of a small scale touring theatre company Aguecheek in Twelfth Night. The show was a the generous support of other sponsors helped great success and had a second longer run in us to become an established part of North 1997 and, as most people now know, went on to Yorkshire’s cultural life. It was that year we North Country Theatre was hatched as an idea would have a chance to survive.” At the time his be a West End, Broadway and International hit. moved into our offices in Rosemary Lane and in 1995 and formally constituted as a Company wife, Gillian Howells, had a “proper” job so they Billed as “the world’s favourite comedy seen by became a Regularly Funded Organisation of the Limited by Guarantee [often called a not for thought they might make ends meet. more than 3 million people”. They could have Arts Council. Our popularity encouraged more profit company] in 1996. There are no owners or He decided to leave and give it a go. seen it first in a village hall in ! and more village hall committees to promote shareholders, just a volunteer board and one theatre. Although travelling as far south as employee. The first production The 39 Steps Kitchen Cabinet We took theatre to the audience Oxfordshire and north to the Scottish Highlands, opened at the Georgian Theatre Royal Richmond A group of people met around a kitchen table at So the Company began with a huge success the core audience was around our home region. on May 3rd 1996. But how does a theatre Nobby and Gillian’s house in Richmond, which might have been used to propel it on to People are often surprised to see that the company come in to existence, and how and including Amanda Cook who has been a board bigger and bigger venues but that was not the company can fill halls in Reeth, Catterick, Gilling why has it survived when many do not? member from the very beginning, local journalist vision. “We didn’t just want to perform in village West, Hunton, Bellerby, and Leyburn which are Debbie Walker our first chair, playwright and TV halls as a stepping stone to something ‘better’. all within a few miles of Richmond despite We had a vision and stuck to it script writer Ken Blakeson and Shea Connolly We actually liked the atmosphere, the proximity having already done two nights at the Georgian The idea of a company which took entertaining Drama Officer from what was then called of the audience, the sense of a shared space, the Theatre Royal in Richmond. and intelligent professional theatre out to rural Yorkshire Arts [now Arts Council England, North] fact that actors were the guests of the audience, communities in North Yorkshire and beyond was and local councillor Clive World. They discussed not the other way round. We liked the Popularity without compromise first and foremost the vision of Nobby Dimon. It how the company might work, what sort of hospitality, the strange sort of once a year The company produced original new plays, was a not new idea or a unique vision, but Nobby shows and whether it could attract some grant friendships we developed with regular bookers, adaptations of forgotten classics like Moll had been working as director of Theatre in aid and earn enough from village hall audiences people from South Shropshire to the Scottish Flanders, tongue in cheek comedies and witty Education for Harrogate Theatre for 8 years to pay the wages. Borders. All right sometimes we had to change spoofs like 2001 Space Idiocy and moving serving North Yorkshire Schools, and was ready Later with the help of a £1000 grant from in a shed or sleep on somebody’s floor, historical dramas like Meantime and Home on for a new challenge. He knew the area well and Yorkshire Arts a tour of The 39 Steps was arranged sometimes the set wouldn’t fit the space, the Range. Great authors from Jane Austen to he knew there was a real demand for cultural by ringing up village halls, schools and small sometimes the raffle took twenty minutes, Conan Doyle to Kipling to Ian McEwan were experiences. “If the material was suitable we theatres and negotiating a fee. Neither the sometimes the electricity meter ran out of ten presented with wit and theatrical innovation, and would often play our theatre-in-education work director nor the co-writer of the adaptation pence pieces in the middle of a show, there was often with a local accent, - not just Lorca’s Blood to adult audiences in the evenings and the Simon Corble were paid for that first tour, and the certainly no glamour, but mostly the atmosphere Wedding, but Blood Wedding in Wensleydale, response was positive from Rosedale Abbey to actors worked for less than the recommended was and is brilliant.” The tours got longer and the often with beautiful and ingenious set designs Richmond from Leeming to Langcliffe, the union rate. That’s how we got it started, but audiences bigger. by our regular designer Simon Pell. Many of the audience so keen to enjoy good quality theatre after that we always paid at the union rate and In 1998 we went through the tortuous process of posters scattered around these pages will on their doorsteps rather than travel to Leeds or employed the actors properly rather than offer a an application to the newly available National bring back memories of favourite shows or York or Newcastle that I felt sure a new company “profit share” as some companies did. Thomas Lottery Fund to enable us to buy a specially great performances. adapted automatic van, office furniture and

4 5 We also produced a series of community plays in about Inuit culture and environmental In 2012 during an Arts Council England re-think, wide network of friends, which a large company of volunteer performers destruction, modern art, local archaeology, as like a number of small companies, we lost our supporters, sponsors and worked with professional actors and production well as a 17 year collaboration with the National regular funding but thanks to the close audience will continue to team to stage large scale theatre. From The Trust at Studley Royal and Fountains Abbey relationship with our audience we have become grow and uphold us, so that Passion Plays of 2002 played in village churches where we created site specific participatory a genuinely ‘crowd funded’ organisation. rural communities continue and Ripon Cathedral, with the awe inspiring set dramas for more than 10,000 visiting primary Through our Be an Angel of the North Country to enjoy entertaining and by artist Mackenzie Thorpe to the choral poetry school children over that time. scheme and the long standing Friends of North intelligent professional of Last Dance of a Dalesman in 2005 to 2014’s Country Theatre organisation we survived. theatre from their friends collaboration with our Norwegian twin town on And Site Specific These not only keep the company afloat by in the North Country for our English Peer Gynt, Blame it on Bartle. Not many companies can say they have contributing to our core costs but have brought many years to come. We have produced 34 plays, all original performed (A Very) Brief Encounter actually on a a replacement long wheel base Mercedes van, scripts or new adaptations and given 1139 moving train, a platform and a waiting room on new lights and other equipment as well as performances to date to a total audience over the Settle Carlisle Railway, created a 10 minute sponsoring actors. Read more about Friends and 100,000. “We developed an expectation in our history of North Yorkshire for the Royal Show, cut Angels further on. audiences of something different, something and performed Labyrinths in Rievaulx, Lindisfarne So will there be another 20 years of North fresh: male characters presented as hats on and Whitby Abbey and presented interactive, Country Theatre? We hope so and the Board is sticks in an all women show, a four poster bed interpretive dramas in water gardens, ruins and in looking at how to keep this popular company turned into a coach, a ship, a prison, there was a stately homes like Brodsworth and Kiplin Hall. going. We are developing artists, with Vivienne hand pulled revolve, doubling, mask work, live Garnett joining the company as Assistant sitar and tabla music, puppetry, projection, even FUNDING AND THE FUTURE Director for Twelfth Night and Director of this a levitation on stage, and above all seriously All this has been achieved with the lowest level of production. We hope that she will good ensemble acting. We often employed the funding of any “Regularly Funded” theatre gain experience of the wide ranging same actors more than once giving our company in England. Most of our venues are skills needed to run a small scale audiences an opportunity to see that these are unsubsidised and volunteer run. We survived company supported by Colin Bailey, skilful professionals able to adapt and change. because people enjoyed what we did and our office manager who is planning to Our most regular performer has been actor Mark invited us back again develop more of a producer’s role. But Cronfield who has played roles as diverse as an and again, because were all this takes money – we hope that the heroic sea captain, a daft Shepherd and a always friendly people amazing supportive partnership disturbed adolescent.” to deal with, not self- between North Country and its important “artistes”, Educational because we charged a All the time we were doing that we were also proper rate and running a continuing programme of educational encouraged realistic work in primary schools especially in the first ticket prices, because 10 years. Participatory dramas we always dealt professionally with staff and funders.

6 7 Debits and Credits

Rudyard Kipling is among England’s favourite poets, (his 1895 poem If never seems to be out of The any list of the nation’s favourite poems) and given the continuing popularity of The Jungle Wish Book and Just So Stories, he can justly claim to be among our favourite children’s writers too, but his astonishing output of novels and short stories is perhaps less well appreciated now. House His numerous collections of short stories include Plain Tales from the Hills, The Phantom Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales, Soldiers Three, Traffic and A stage adaptation based loosely on Rudyard Kipling’s short story Discoveries, and Debits and Credits in which the story of The Wish House appears. Written in the Scripted by Nobby Dimon late 1920’s when Kipling had moved to live in East Sussex, it is a strange and rather grim story Directed by Vivienne Garnett of obsessive love, told obliquely through the teatime conversation of two very matter of fact old ladies, in a broad Sussex accent. geography, introduced characters and distorted Cast The credits for the poignancy and power of the others, to make a play which I hope works for Grace Ashcroft Ashley Christmas original story and the clever way it unfolds are North Country’s audience. Read the original! entirely Kipling’s and the debits entirely mine in Nurse Fettley/ Polly Batten/Sophy Vivienne Garnett that I have plundered his plot, changed the Nobby Dimon Reverend Smith/Harry Mockler Mark Cronfield

Production Set Construction Jonny Buck Director’s Note Scenic Art Simon Pell, Vivienne Garnett Digital Imagery Andy Thursfield The story of The Wish House appealed to me their own journeys. Lifting the play off the page for many reasons; the openness with which has been a joy, not only because of the creative Lighting Design Tony Wilcock older women talk about their desires and process, but also because I’m glad to be bringing ‘satisfactions’, the juxtaposition of the ordinary a play to the stage about a woman who is not Sound Effects Dave Harris and the supernatural, the extremes a person will afraid to love, a woman who is not ashamed of Costume Alice Lawson go to for love and the poignancy of sacrifice. her past or her body and a woman who is feisty Nobby’s adaptation has captured all of these and funny and flawed. I hope you enjoy it. Rehearsal Stage Management Lindsay Trenholme themes whilst adding a great deal of humour to Company Administration Colin Bailey what is essentially a rather sinister and sombre Vivienne Garnett tale. He has developed the story to explore the Fund Raising and Marketing Gillian Howells distinctions and contradictions between science, superstition and faith and to there will be an interval, duration to be announced incorporate additional characters to Kipling’s original story who have their own secrets and

8 9 Ashley Christmas Jonny Buck Ashley trained at Leicester Polytechnic and has a B.A (Hons) in Performing set construction Arts. Her theatre work includes playing: Linda Yates in Missing in Action Jonny is a Bradford-based woodworker who created the first map and stepladder set for The 39 Steps for Proteus Theatre Company; Sadie May in The Rise and Fall of Little back in 1996. Those two pairs of solid stepladders have been repainted numerous times and Voice for Hull Truck Theatre; the White Queen in Alice Through The appeared in several North Country productions in the intervening years. He created the Illyria flats Looking Glass for The Tobacco Factory, Bristol; Miss Skillon in See How for Twelfth Night and works with a number of theatre companies whilst managing his own They Run for York Theatre Royal. commercial joinery business. Most recently Ashley has been performing in a one woman show Becoming Hattie; an affectionate look at the life and career of Hattie Lindsay Trenholme Jacques and a witty look at modern life in show business and its cultural rehearsal stage manager attitudes toward larger women. Ashley is an Associate Performer with Spent 20 years working in production for BBC television, ranging from being a runner on I, Claudius to Big State Theatre Company who are in residence at Salisbury Arts Centre. Assistant Floor Manager on Blackadder’s Christmas Carol and The Hour of the Pig with Colin Firth. She performs street theatre for the Natural Theatre Company, Bath, at home and abroad. Returned home to Yorkshire as a Stage Manager for several years with Emmerdale and Heartbeat, and first joined North Country Theatre rehearsals in 2011 for The Rocking Horse Winner and has been Mark Cronfield involved with the creation of almost every North Country show since then. Mark is a rare thing, a professional actor who lives in upper Wensleydale. Tony Wilcock He trained at Oxford Drama School and his work experience ranges from lighting design the sublime to the ridiculous, The National Theatre to Hollyoaks. He has Tony is Production Manager at the Georgian Theatre Royal Richmond and has designed lighting and appeared in numerous North Country productions including a previous technical aspects of all North Country Shows since 2012 most recently the atmospheric lighting of Kipling adaptation, The Man Who Would Be King, and was Bartle in Blame The Gift of Stones. it on Bartle in 2014. He has just been St Aidan at Lindisfarne for Time Will Tell. He is excited to be part of the continuing 20th anniversary Alice Lawson celebrations, having played Egil (Egil Skallagrimsson Keeps His Head), and costume Antonio (Twelfth Night) earlier this year. Richmond-based costume maker-designer and wardrobe mistress Alice first worked for us whilst still a student in Leicester and has since designed and made costume and wardrobe managed several Vivienne Garnett shows including the challenge of the massive community play project Blame it on Bartle in 2014. Vivienne has joined North Country Theatre for its 20th anniversary year Andy Thursfield as Associate Director. Her first professional acting job was with the digital imagery company back in 2005, playing Cathy in The Imitation Game, and eleven A freelance graphic designer, Andy has designed North Country’s posters, leaflets and programmes years later she is now making her directorial debut, as well as being a for 16 years, including his personal favourites A Month in the Country and The Rocking Horse Winner. member of the cast. During those eleven years she has performed many Andy also paints and his works featured in the 2015/16 New Light Prize Exhibition of Northern Art at times on the North Country stage in Prisoner of Zenda, Home on the the Bowes Museum, Mercer Gallery Harrogate, and Panter & Hall Gallery Pall Mall. Range and The Lighthouse on Shivering Sands to name a few, and has also appeared at Frinton Summer Season in Essex and at Gasworks and Chapel Off Chapel in Melbourne.

Nobby Dimon adapter, script writer North Country Theatre would like thank the following for their help with this production Has written more than 30 plays ranging from children’s theatre to large Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes, The Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmondshire District Council, scale community plays. He has adapted for the stage the work of John Richmond Town Council, Richmond Operatic Society, Richmond Dramatic Society, Natural Theatre, Buchan, Jane Austen, Defoe, Kipling, Conan Doyle, DH Lawrence , and JL Beki Stevenson, Carillion, John Ward and Caroline Woodroffe, Annette Clark, Jenny and Tony Power, Carr and many others. He was co-creator of the adaptation of The 39 Councillor Stuart Parsons. Steps which became a West End, Broadway and International hit. He has been artistic director of North Country Theatre since 1996 and previously worked for Harrogate Theatre, Durham Theatre Co., Cleveland Theatre Co. and Snap Peoples Theatre.

10 11 Friends of North Country Theatre

Dru Yoga and Dru Meditation This stand-alone organisation was set up by a We are grateful to the committee and Geoff Wall classes in Richmond, group of enthusiastic supporters back in October [Chair], Judith Brickwood [Treasurer], Sophie 2002 – since then over 500 households have Gore [Secretary] Hazel Waite, Anne Miller, Chloe Catterick & Barnard Castle joined, with the current membership standing at Greenwood for all their enthusiastic support and nearly 300, as some have transferred over to would especially like to thank Tim Kendall the Enjoy the energising flowing power being an Angel and others have moved on. membership secretary – who set up and The Friends has a committee who meet manages the rolling renewals database and who of Dru with an experienced teacher occasionally to plan and run fundraising events, is the link between us and our many Friends. Fun classes to stretch, strengthen and and respond to requests from the company for Members get a newsletter twice or three financial support. For many years this has been times a year, which keeps them up to date with revitalise the body regarded as ‘the icing on the cake’ as they news from the company, plus advance notice of Relaxation and meditation techniques sponsored actors, brought equipment for the next production tour schedule and a flier, productions and helped out at events. The van, plus a Christmas card with information on plans to help you find the still point within special cyclorama which helps us create a black for the following year. box, and the new LED lights are all examples of The Friends are planning a celebratory Gillian Howells this fantastic support. Most recently – since 2012, party in December and a number of other the Friends have agreed to contribute £8000 to our fundraising events – so if you’d like to be part, 01748 825362 core costs so the subscription of £25 a year makes why not sign up using the form below? [email protected] a real difference to the stability of the company.

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12 13 Where would we be without our Angels? Congratulations Not celebrating our 20th Anniversary that’s vision with plans for the following three years on 20 years of for sure. Back in 2011 when Arts Council England [which have all now been delivered] and invited let us know that from 2012 we would no longer people to invest. We’d worked out that if 400 excellence from one be guaranteed regularly funding it was quite a people pledge to give us £100 a year then we Dales institution set-back. Though a comparative small amount could keep going – that’s less than the cost of a [£37,000] it did make a significant difference. A latte a week! And basically they did – from Arch to another. touring production generates its own income so angels to cherubs, the pledges came in – and we it was the year round operation that was under need them to keep coming in. So our grateful From all the staff, threat. How could we bridge the gap? thanks to all – please polish those halos they are Friends of the Museum After some thought and planning we well deserved. launched our new crowd funding prospectus Be If you would like to join the heavenly host and audiences at this an Angel* of the North Country which stated our of North Country Angels please use the form below.

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